£250 - £300
Bien-Hoa. 1917-18 Stampless covers (5) and postcards (4), various cachets comprise violet straight line "BIEN-HOA", "NAVIRE-HOPITAL BIEN-HOA / MEDECIN-CHEF", "Navire Hopital / Bien-Hoa", circular "NAVIRE-HOPITAL BIEN-HOA / MEDECIN-CHEF" or "MARINE FRANCAISE / SERVICE A LA MER". Three items posted in Tunisia or Morocco, one card from Toulon, one cover from TeP 505 in Salonica. Also three postcards of the ship and a tie-on medical diagnosis label with ship cachet. The "Bien-Hoa" was based in Salonica, sailing to Toulon with sick and wounded French troops and to Bizerta with sick Serbs. (13).
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